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But better than the dry perspective is the lawyer stuff. Emily works at a fancy New York firm, has to deal with a handsy partner who brings in too many clients to fire, and does a nice deposition of a backwoodsy type who is suing a bad guy corporate polluter. Emily interrogates her country deponent about prior health problems, poor diet, other potential polluters nearby, and the like, to the delight of her nasty partner, the consternation of plaintiff???s counsel, and the confusion of her quarry. I delighted too ??? moral ambiguity! The big guy isn???t always the bad guy! Or, at least, I delighted until the effective but lascivious and mean partner got fired, some other much more politically correct partner, who wears pink high tops to work so you know she???s cool, forced the bad guy polluter to surrender for big bucks, and Emily took a job with a public-interest organization where she could really start sticking it to the man.

Here???s some background on the admirably young, and now book-deal wealthy author of the novel, Julie Buxbaum.